Shoe shining stand



Patented. Sept. 5, 1933 UNITED STATES SHOE SHINING STAND Alvin R. Wells,

Cincinnati, Ohio Application November 22, 1932 Serial No. 643,873

4 Claims.

My invention relates to a shoe shining stand consisting of the customary seat and foot rests such as are greatly in use at the present time.

Apparatus heretofore provided for such use has 5 usually consisted of a chair or some other type of seat and foot rests upon which the feet are placed in a convenient location to be worked on. Most of these foot rests or supports have been so made as to be permanently fixed or unmovable. In such a case they are always in an inconvenient location for a person climbing onto the stand. Frequently, persons have torn articles of clothing on the foot rests and others have been seriously injured because of some piece of clothing catching in the stand causing them to trip and fall onto the floor. This situation has been given careful consideration in the past and numerous attempts have been made to remedy it.

Stands have been provided with the foot rests movably mounted under the stand so that they can be pushed under the stand when a person is mounting or getting down from the stand. With such a construction it is necessary for the workman to reach in under the stand to pull the foot rests out into operative position. It is obvious that this is as a rule entirely unsatisfactory.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a stand with the customary foot rests or supports so that the rests can be moved into a convenient position quickly and easily and can be brought back into operative position with facility and Without any inconvenience to the customer.

t is further an object to provide such rests with means for maintaining them in operative position without the use of complicated and time wasting mechanism. It can readily be seen that when the foot rests are moved out of operative position it will be practically impossible for customers to catch their clothing in the rests causing damage to their clothing or personal injury.

In the particular embodiment of my invention selected for illustration:

Fig. 1 is a perspective of my device showing the foot rests in operative position,

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawing:

The device is comprised of a stand .10 of any suitable material such as wood, provided with a step 11 and a platform 12 upon which is any suitable chair or seat 13.

The foot rests or supports 14 are preferably 55 rigidly secured as by screws 15 to the bars 16 and 17. The studs or bolts 18 and 19 pass through the platform 12, cross-piece 20 and bars 16 and 17 respectively providing a pivot for the bars so that they may be moved laterally into and 60 out of operative position. A spring 21 is attached at its ends to the bars 16 and 17 so as to normally swing the foot rests l4 outwardly into the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2.

In the front portion of the stand 10 is provided horizontal slots 22 and 23 in which the bars 16 and 17 move and are guided and at their inner ends theslots are notched deeper at 24 and 25 so that the foot rests may be held in operative position when a 'customers shoes are being shined.

While the invention has been described above in its preferred form, it will be obvious that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit or scope thereof and it is therefore desired that only such limitations be imposed thereon as are necessitated by the prior art or specifically set forth in the claims.

I claim:

1. A shoe shining stand comprising a base, a pair of arms pivotally mounted within said base and projecting from the front thereof, foot rests secured on the projecting ends of said arms, a spring attached to said arms tending to swing said foot rests laterally outward and means for removably maintaining said foot rests inwardly against the tension of said spring.

2. A shoe shiningstand comprising a base, a

pair of arms pivotally mounted within said base and projecting from the front thereof, foot rests secured on the projecting ends of said arms, lateral slots in said base in which said arms move and are guided, a spring attached to said arms tending to swing said foot rests laterally outward and means for removably maintaining said foot rests inwardly against the tension of said spring.

3. A shoe shining stand comprising a base, a pair of arms pivotally mounted within said base and projecting from the front thereof, foot rests secured on the projecting ends of said arms, lateral slots in said base in which said arms move and are guided, deeply notched portions at the inner ends of said slots maintaining said arms and foot rests in their innermost positions and a spring attached to said arms tending to swing said foot rests laterally outward.

4. A shoe shining stand comprising a base, a pair of arms pivotally mounted within said base and projecting from the front thereof, foot rests secured, on the projecting ends of said arms and lateral slots in said base in which said arms move and are guided, said slots extending near to the ends of the front of said base permitting said arms and foot rests to swing outwardly to- Wards the sides of said base and being provided with deeply notched portions at their inner ends to removably hold said arms and foot rests in their innermost positions.

ALVIN R. WELLS. 

